# Forum: Message editing: newline expanding broken for me

_General · started by Rudi Mentaire on Mon, Nov 2, 2026 8:10 AM_

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## Original post

**Rudi Mentaire** · Mon, Nov 2, 2026 8:10 AM

Hello,  using this forum is a joy (really) - but a feature that doesn't work for me (using nomadnet in an XFCE-Terminal at this moment) is that newlines are collapsed when I edit my messages and re-expaned when done. Collapsing works, expansion not. Not at all, AFAICT. This makes correcting typos troublesome, because I have to replace the respective space characters with newlines manually every time.  I have the impression that the "collapsed" version of the text gets posted literally, with no magic applied. An example is the beginning of this message, where the original version had two newlines after "Hello,".  Does this work for others?

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